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French Commercial codeIn force
Sub-paragraph 1: Deeds relating to ownership and transfer of ownership

Article A444-102

Sales by judicial auction of all goods and rights other than movable and movable objects, retail trees, and boats (number 69 of table 5) give rise, to the collection:1° If the specifications drawn up…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Sub-paragraph 1: Deeds relating to ownership and transfer of ownership

Article A444-101

…on units, branches of business activity (number 68 in table 5) give rise, when they are subject to land registration, to the collection of a fee proportional to the value of the assets subject to such…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Sub-paragraph 1: Deeds relating to ownership and transfer of ownership

Article A444-100

Deeds relating to lease-to-own property (numbers 66 and 67 of Table 5) give rise to the collection of a proportional emolument:1° To the sale price, when the initial contract is concluded;2° To the pr…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Authorisation for the preparation and supply of certain allergens.

Article R4211-1

Any application for the authorisation provided for in article L. 4211-6 shall be submitted to the Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé by the per…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Authorisation for the preparation and supply of certain allergens.

Article R4211-10

Decisions to authorise, modify, renew, suspend or withdraw authorisation are published on the Agency's website.

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 3: Patentable inventions

Article L611-14

…if, for a person skilled in the art, it does not follow in an obvious manner from the state of the art. If the state of the art includes documents mentioned in the third paragraph of Article L. 611-1…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Sub-sub-paragraph 3: Filing of accounting documents, declaration of confidentiality and declaration of simplified publication of annual accounts.

Article R123-111-1

…ounts to third parties pursuant to this text, the accounting documents filed pursuant to Article R. 123-111 shall be accompanied by a declaration of confidentiality of the annual accounts drawn up in…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 1: Practice of the profession by students

Article R4141-1

…e not interns may be authorised to practise dentistry under the conditions laid down in article L. 4141-4, for a period running from the date of obtaining the certificate of clinical and therapeutic s…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Enforcement of the vendor's lien and pledge of the business and purging of registered debts.

Article L143-1

…e registered creditors, at least fifteen days in advance, of his intention to transfer the business and of the new registered office he intends to give it.Within fifteen days of the notice to be serve…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Enforcement of the vendor's lien and pledge of the business and purging of registered debts.

Article L143-15

The successful bidder is obliged to take the equipment and goods existing at the time of taking possession, at the prices set by an amicable or judicial expertise, contradictorily between the outbid b…

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